Tiny Toes blog

July’s theme presents all of us with a fantastic opportunity to simply continue with what we do every day- teach numbers and letters! Even the smallest babies can be introduced to the concept of numbers and letters. Singing alphabet and counting songs, counting fingers and toes, vocalising initial letter sounds, (…

The Romans called June ‘Junius’. It has been suggested that this month was named for the young, or ‘ juniores’. What better month for children? ( well, maybe December!) as the days are long, usually warm, and sometimes dry. An ideal month for holidays and playing outdoors. This month, we…

Tiny Toes in conjunction with Manchester University – dedicated to research into early language development. Introduction As part of my PhD project, I have been visiting Tiny Toes to investigate children’s language development. I am most interested in how children stop mis-using particular words in past-tense (e.g., “I builded a…

Bilingual children have better ‘working memory’ than monolingual children, study shows; children were shown a series of stimuli (frogs) that simultaneously appeared in different points of the screen. When the frogs disappeared, children had to remember the places where they had appeared. (b) The most complex task: stimuli were separetely…

Tiny Toes in conjunction with Manchester University – dedicated to research into early language development. Introduction In our study at Tiny Toes Nursery, we explore various factors that may shape a child’s language development. A child must eventually come to understand that some verbs can be used in a particular…